The Power of Thanksgiving!

Psalm 104:4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving And His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name! 5 For the Lord is good; His loving-kindness is everlasting and His faithfulness to all generations.
Psalm 140:13 Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name; The upright will dwell in Your presence.

1. Thanksgiving In and For All Things Everyday!

1 Thessalonians 5:16 Rejoice Always! 17 Pray without ceasing; 18 In Everything give thanks for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 5:20 Always Giving Thanks for All Things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father!
Psalm 118:19-24 – Not Just One Day a Year! It’s about everyday! Why?

2. Thanksgiving Will Remind you of Who You Are & Who God Is!
3. Thanksgiving Points to Jesus! Hebrews 12:1-3
4. Thanksgiving for Everything Changes Your Perspective!

¬ You Have a Grasp For What God’s Will is For Your Life!
¬ You Push Through the Hard Times Knowing That God’s Purposes Being Accomplished in Your Life! Rom 8:28-30: 1 Thessalonians 3:1-8
¬ You Have a Growing Faith in the Providence of God!
¬ You Are Willing to Look Foolish!
¬ It Means You are Willing to Place Every Circumstance in the hands of God, which in reality they already are!
¬ It Means You See and Confess Jesus As Lord!
¬ You Choose to See the Good God is Accomplishing!
¬ You Choose to Be Happy, and if Not Deliriously Happy, you at the least find contentment!
¬ You put off grumbling, complaint and discontentment, thanking God for all that He has given and all that He is doing!
¬ You Believe Your Circumstances furthers the will of God & the Growth of the Gospel!
¬ You Choose to be Led by the Spirit According to His Word!
¬ You Are Willing to be a Greater Vessel for His Glory!
¬ You Find Out the Great and Lasting Joy Comes not because of Good circumstances but from the Hand of God!
¬ You Suffer in A Manner Worthy of the Lord!
¬ Your Ache seems to be relieved as you know that for the believer, weeping may last through the night, but a shout of joy comes in the morning!\

5. Thanksgiving For Everything Unleashes the Power of God!

1) Luke 17:11-19: Ten Lepers Are Healed By Jesus, One returns Thanks and Receives Salvation!
2) Jonah 2:9: After three days in the belly of a Fish, Jonah finally gives Thanks and the Fish Vomits Him to the Shore!
3) John 11: At the Tomb of Lazarus, who’s been dead for Four days, Jesus gives Thanks and Lazarus Comes Forth!
4) Job 1 After the Greatest Lost Job Worships His God!

Acts 16: Paul and Silas Worships God and God breaks their chains and saves a Jailer and His whole Household
5) John 6: Jesus Gives Thanks for 5 Loaves and 2 Fish and feeds 5,000 men and their families!
6) Luke 22: Jesus Gives Thanks for a Broken Body and Spilt Blood and Salvation Is Offered to the Whole World!

Thanksgiving Faith Brings Salvation to the World! Luke 22b

Luke 22: Jesus Gives Thanks for a Broken Body and Spilt Blood and Salvation Is Offered to the Whole World!

• Giving Thanks for the Broken Body!

This is My Body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.

1. The Body of Jesus Bore Your Grief! Isaiah 53:4
2. The Body of Jesus Bore Your Sins! 1 Peter 2:21-25

John 1:29 Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world!

• Giving Thanks For His Shed Blood!

This Cup is the New Covenant in My blood: do this as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me!

1. His Blood Cleanses and Forgives You!
Hebrews 9:14 – The Blood of Christ Cleanses your conscience form dead works to save the living God!
Verse 23: Without the shedding of blood there is not forgiveness of sins!

2. The Blood Provides Constant Access to the Father!
Hebrews 10:19 Since therefore brothers we have confidence to enter in to the Holy Place by the Blood of Jesus!

3. The Blood Makes You Holy and Blameless!
Hebrews 13:12 Therefore Jesus Also ;that He might sanctify the people through His own blood suffered outside the gate!

4. The Blood Made Way For Your Redemption!

Ephesians 1:7 In Whim we have redemptions through His bood the forgiveness of our trespasses according the riches of His Grace!

5. The Blood Justifies You! Romans 5:9
6. The Blood Provides Victory! Revelation 12:11

• The Reason For this Supper!

1) To Remember, for Faith, For Comfort, For Inspiration!
2) To Proclaim His Death!

Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me!